Thursday, November 24, 2011

Now this is what I try to explain to everybody. All our childhood dreams, our curiosity, our happyness are lost while growing up.

We just grow quantitatively, but not qualitatively any longer. All kindergarden, all schools, universities, and businesses steal from the small personalities we once have been before we arrived at them.

You may understand that in the end nothing is left of us.

Most wo/men do not live a real life, they just produce stuff for others, produce excel-cells, tables, and calculations, produce market shares and market leaders, produce consumption, produce waste.

Most people just accelerate the rat race they are in.

But just accelerating the rat race does not do any good, does not build wealth, mentally or materially, does not build a future worth living, but just prolongues our existence - and by having a look outside it does not even prolongue but shorten our existence.

All those great minds out there stopped dreaming, stopped imagining, stopped innovating or inventing at the age of 5 or 7.

And even we ourselves can't remember, or? Or why do we find that exact conception as ridiculous as we do right now?

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you - is expressed in those terms.

Call it Generation Sell.

Bands are still bands, but now they’re little businesses, as well: self-produced, self-published, self-managed. When I hear from young people who want to get off the careerist treadmill and do something meaningful, they talk, most often, about opening a restaurant. Nonprofits are still hip, but students don’t dream about joining one, they dream about starting one. In any case, what’s really hip is social entrepreneurship — companies that try to make money responsibly, then give it all away.

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The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

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The self today is an entrepreneurial self, a self that’s packaged to be sold.

At the moment we are 12 brave wo/men - but want to allure all brave wo/men out there! Just to give you a very small hint on what we are talking about please inhale the following list.

(Yeah, I know, some 20.000+ great people are not on that list.But you do know: there is no definitive list of great people.)

This is not about names. The personalities beyond them will give you a pretty good picture what I am talking about. They are the wild-card characters of entrepreneurial personalities and spirit, of motivation, engagement, and dedication I would love to see @TheThirdClub:

Friday, August 19, 2011

"... To build an economy that not only welcomes, but seeks to invent the new. An economy that welcomes the weird. An economy that sees risk not as a liability but as an asset that yields a more valuable return than just cash." ...

"embracing it’s softer principles of innovation, risk, learning and celebration of the weird can lay the foundation for 21st century economies to emerge…."

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"As I write this, Apple has passed Exxon to become the most valuable company in the world.

The contrast of 20th vs. 21st century economies couldn’t be starker. On one hand you have Apple reinventing every industry it touches, with $75 billion dollars of cash in the bank and building a spaceship in Cupertino and on the other you have belching exhaust, depleting resources and government subsidies."

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Political leaders lead. Lead by going forward. Lead by going ahead. Lead by pioneering. Lead by setting a good example. Lead by being role models.

Leaders lead by anticipating the future. Lead by anticipating our future. The future of the world. Future of energy. Future of Europe. Future of mobility. Future of society.

Leaders lead by shaping the future. Shaping ideas. Visions. Shaping strategies and actions to make these visions come true.

Leaders lead by legislating, and by dispending justice. Justice, giving us and businesses a framework to become better people and businesses - to create a better world for all of us.

Or at least they should - but they don't. They love to be caught by situations. Love to react. Love to sit and wait for problems to be solved in hyperactivity to demonstrate they act.

They do not understand the concept of political leadership. They fail at leading. They follow. Follow the media. Follow some monopolistic businesses. Monopolies they created themselves.

These political leaders call politics what we call trade-offs, compromises, on our expense as a country, society, individual. Our future and wealth, mental and material.

Compromises compromise everything we are and have!

Dear Leaders, get your act together! Stop procrastinating! Concentrate on the relevant. Make yourself redundant. Gather people around you, who are more visionary than you, with higher expertise and more courage, with higher commitment, passion, and engagement. People loving their country!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

... or - phrased slightly different: Do you know a politician who made it to the top because s/he achieved something for the people, citizens, constituents? Any politician who did not take care for himself first - struggled solely with his own party and career, instead of fighting for some higher goal?

Do you know any politician who took action, instead of just speechifying his way through the political hierarchies?

That is why politicians can't get rid of that paltry feeling they solely act on their own good!

But we - all over the world - desperately need political talents understanding the country's true needs, the people's wants, the real-life challenges.Political talents who make their way through the old boys networks.Talents who are able to deliver a new world order. Not the same old same-same.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

"Sweden has, again, beaten all other countries at what the World Economic Forum describes as "fully integrating new technologies in...competitiveness strategies and using them as a crucial lever for long-term growth." ...

The rankings are from the report's "Networked Readiness Index" (NRI), which is defined as "the capacity of countries to fully benefit from new technologies in their competitiveness strategies and their citizens’ daily lives."